Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARVARD'S Economics Department offers no courses on black Africa but this does not mean it is discriminating against the Continent. The Department offers few regional study courses. But the lack of African courses in Economics clearly black students' requests, for this Department is probably in a better position than any other at Harvard to provide courses on Africa. The Economics Department is not plagued by the severe shortage of African scholars that the History and Government Departments now face...
There are, however, a few economics courses on specific areas, but all of these courses are associated with the regional study centers at Harvard. The University has no regional study center concerned with black Africa, but in the Development Advisory Service of the Center for International Affairs, it has the next best thing...
...provide economic advice to under-developed countries which request it. It currently has advisory teams in Liberia and Ghana. In previous years, the staff for these two units was selected from throughout the United States and western Europe and few staff members returned to Harvard after their work in Africa...
...could do more of the second was to bring more people back." Consequently, the DAS will, in the summer of 1969, bring to Harvard two staff members who have been working in Ghana. These men would be in a position to teach undergraduate courses on their experiences in Africa...
...receptive the Economics Department is to courses on black Africa is unclear. Richard Caves, chairman of the Department, feels that regional study courses would not significantly contribute to a student's understanding of economics. "As you look at economics," he states, "you have to ask if sub-Sahara Africa is important...